Car-coupling



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOSEPH V. HABTMAN AND ALBERT WETZEL, JR, OF LINW'OOD, OHIO.

CAR-COUPLING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 288,797, dated November 20, 1883.

' Application filed April 28,1883. (No model.)

To aZZ whom/it may concern:

, Be it known that we, J osnrn V. HARTMAN and ALBERT Wn'rznL, J r., both of Linwood, Hamilton county, Ohio, have jointly invented a new and useful Improvement in Oar-Couplings, of which the following is a specification.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 shows (by side elevation of one and vertical section of the other) two draw-heads embodying our invention. These heads being of identical construction, the same description of parts is applicable to both. Fig. 2 shows a modification of the liftercam and spring.

A may represent a suitable draw-bar, and B an attached head, of any proper construction, having the customary open mouth or muzzle, b. O is a coupling-link; D. couplingpin; E, sliding rest for coupling-pin; e, shank of same, whose head 0 occupies a slot, a, in bar A; F, spring to force said rest to the protracted position shown by dotted lines in the left-hand head. G is a lifter, whose shaft 9,

A B, link 0, sliding rest E, and coupling-pin D, of the lifter G, having a cam, H, which receives the pressure of and is held by aspring, J, as and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony of which invention we hereunto set our hands.

JOSEPH V. HARTMAN. ALBERT WEIZEL, JR.

Attest:

GEO. H. KNIGHT, SAML. S. CARPENTER. 

